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In Arkansas, a furor over 'Babe Bracket' rating of female TV journalists

In hindsight, Austin Kellerman wished he'd thought more about going on a sports talk radio show to promote a journalist at his Arkansas station.

For the past 12 years, a Little Rock sports talk radio station, KABZ (The Buzz), has promoted its "Babe Bracket," a March Madness-style tournament to rank local female television journalists. Kellerman agreed to go on "The Show With No Name," which hosts the bracket, two years ago to tout the accomplishments of one of his reporters.

But afterward, he felt gross.

Kellerman, news director at NBC affiliate KARK and Fox affiliate KLRT, respected the journalist's work, but felt

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